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...trying to decide between two good job offers when I stopped into St. Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Church to think things through," he recounts. "When I knelt down, everything turned fuzzy except the face of Christ on a painting near the altar." The image at the altar issued to Tomes the first of several direct orders that would haunt him for the next three years...
...redo at least part of the re-entry. Ekaterina Gordeeva, two-time gold-medal winner in pairs skating, watched at a skating rink as her 28-year-old partner and husband died in her arms of undiagnosed heart disease, in November 1995. Oksana Baiul, the pixie 16-year-old Ukrainian orphan who struck gold in the singles, celebrated with a nonstop party that ended when she wrapped her green Mercedes-Benz around a few innocent conifers while under the influence in Connecticut. Baiul, now 20, tells TIME she is an alcoholic, and she is trying to pull herself together. Nancy...
...helped, of course, that he was a pretty common man himself. Born Usher (later changed to Arthur) Fellig in 1899, Weegee was the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. He dropped out of high school, then moved out of his parents' Lower East Side apartment in New York City while still in his teens, spending some time homeless, scuttling through public parks, shelters and menial jobs, all the while hoping for regular work in a photo studio--an ambition he picked up while working as an assistant to an itinerant street photographer. Depending on which story you believe, his nickname...
...lastest pretrial hearing, in November, reporters noticed that Michael Markhasev had bulked up a bit--not exactly to Schwarzenegger size but far from the scrawny figure the Ukrainian emigre cut when he was taken into custody last spring. With a trial set to begin Feb. 17 in Los Angeles on a charge of murder in the death of Ennis Cosby--the real-life son of beloved TV-life father Bill Cosby--observers could come to only one conclusion about Markhasev's newfound passion for weight lifting: he's getting ready for life inside...
...night of July 3, a student in the Ukrainian Institute Summer Program was diagnosed with the extremely contagious disease, triggering a College-wide scramble to combat the emergence of further cases...